- FL: Regime seeks to ban “West Bank” from official vocabulary
Source: The New Arab [UK]
“A measure is being advanced in the Florida legislature to officially recognise the term ‘Judea and Samaria’ and ban ‘West Bank’ in official state documents. The name change, which has strong support in both chambers of the Florida state legislature, would mean that all official documents, including press releases, school textbooks, and library materials, would refer to the area west of the Jordan River by its biblical names, Judea and Samaria. … Supporters of the bill say it seeks to recognise a historic location, while critics say it is a tactic to erase Palestinian identity—and possibly further Israeli control over the West Bank, which it has occupied since 1967 (and expanding illegal settlements ever since).” (01/26/26)
https://www.newarab.com/news/florida-aims-ban-west-bank-official-vocabulary
- Myanmar: Military-backed party secures “election” “win” with opposition excluded
Source: ABC News
“Myanmar’s military-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party claimed Monday that it had won the country’s first election since the army seized power in 2021, paving the way for a new government. The victory of the party led by a former general was widely expected after the vote excluded major opposition parties and dissent was tightly restricted. Also, 25% of parliamentary seats were automatically reserved for the military — effectively guaranteeing control by the armed forces and its favored parties. Critics say the polls organized by the military government were neither free nor fair, but an effort to legitimize its rule after seizing power from the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi. The takeover triggered widespread opposition that dragged Myanmar into a civil war.” (01/26/26)
- Treasury cancels Booz Allen contracts after employee leaked Trump tax records; stock falls
Source: CNBC
“Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Monday said he had cancelled all Treasury Department contracts with the consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton, one of whose employees leaked the tax records of President Donald Trump, and the billionaires Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk, to media outlets. Booz Allen Hamilton’s stock price dropped by 8% on the heels of the Treasury Department’s announcement. The department said it currently has 31 separate contracts with Booz Allen Hamilton, totaling $4.8 million in annual spending and $21 million in total obligations. … The department noted that between 2018 and 2020, Booz Allen employee Charles Edward Littlejohn ‘stole and leaked the confidential tax returns and return information of hundreds of thousands of taxpayers.’ The data breach affected about 406,000 taxpayers, according to the IRS. Littlejohn, 40, pleaded guilty in October 2023 to one count of disclosure of tax return information.” (01/26/26)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/26/trump-tax-records-treasury-cancels-booz-allen-contracts.html
- Lebanon: Regime files UN complaint against Israeli regime’s daily ceasefire violations
Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]
“Lebanon has filed a complaint with the United Nations about repeated Israeli violations of a November 2024 ceasefire, calling on the Security Council to push Israel to end its attacks and fully withdraw from the country. The Lebanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants said the complaint, sent on Monday, stressed that Israeli abuses are a ‘clear’ violation of UN Security Council Resolution 1701, which ended a war between Israel and Hezbollah in 2006. … Despite the 2024 ceasefire, the Israeli military has been launching near-daily attacks in Lebanon, which have killed hundreds of people. In November last year, the UN put the number of civilians killed in Israeli attacks at at least 127.” (01/26/26)
- Mexico: Gunmen open fire at soccer field, killing 11 people and wounding 12
Source: CBS News
“Gunmen opened fire at a soccer field in central Mexico on Sunday, killing at least 11 people and wounding 12, authorities said. Salamanca Mayor Cesar Prieto said in a statement posted to social platforms that the gunmen arrived at the end of a soccer match. … Four bags containing human remains were also found Saturday night in the same town. Guanajuato had Mexico’s highest homicide total last year. Much of the violence in the state is linked to conflict between the Santa Rosa de Lima gang and the Jalisco New Generation cartel, one of the most powerful in the Latin American nation.” (01/26/26)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/gunmen-attack-soccer-field-deaths-injuries-guanajuato-mexico/
- ICC judges find former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte fit to stand trial
Source: Seattle Times
“Judges at the International Criminal Court ruled on Monday that former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is fit to stand trial, after postponing an earlier hearing over concerns about the octogenarian’s health. Duterte is facing charges of crimes against humanity for his alleged involvement in dozens of killings as part of his so-called war on drugs when in office, first as the mayor of a southern city and later as president. Lawyers for the 80-year old had argued Duterte was in frail health and his condition was deteriorating in the court’s detention unit.” (01/26/26)
- UK: Former Tory home secretary Suella Braverman defects to Reform
Source: Independent [UK]
“Controversial former home secretary Suella Braverman has become the latest ex-Tory right-winger to defect to Nigel Farage’s Reform. After months of speculation, Ms Braverman, who once ran for the leadership of the Conservative Party, has joined her ally Robert Jenrick in switching parties. She was unveiled at a Reform rally for veterans in London as the party’s eighth sitting MP, having been a rare visitor to parliament in the last few months. … Speculation had been rife about Ms Braverman joining Reform since her husband Rael became a member last year, but it cooled when the party’s former chair Mr Yusuf issued a series of very personal attacks against her, which saw Mr Braverman quit the party in protest. A Tory source claimed: ‘Suella would have joined Reform sooner but the status of Rael was clearly a sticking point because they would have to let him rejoin the party as well.'” (01/26/26)
- Trump’s Latest Regime Change Target
Source: Ron Paul Liberty Report
by Ron Paul“The Justice Department recently launched a criminal investigation into whether Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell lied to Congress about the costs of renovating the Federal Reserve’s offices. Many believe this investigation was launched in order to support President Trump’s effort to replace Powell, who he nominated to be Fed chairman in 2017, with a Fed chairman who will accommodate President Trump’s demands for lower interest rates. Almost all observers believe that President Trump’s desire to stack the Federal Reserve board with loyalists who will tailor monetary policy to his liking motivated the investigation of Federal Reserve Board Member Lisa Cook. President Trump is using allegations that Cook lied on a mortgage application as a justification to fire her.” (01/26/26)
http://www.ronpaullibertyreport.com/archives/trumps-latest-regime-change-target
- Does Britain’s Inflation Target Still Make Sense?
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Damian Pudner“For much of the decade before the Covid pandemic, Britain’s inflation problem was its absence. Prices rose too slowly. Policymakers fretted about deflation, secular stagnation and the limits of monetary policy. Interest rates hovered near zero. Quantitative easing was deployed not to restrain demand, but to stimulate it — often with disappointing results, unless you happened to own property or financial assets. Hitting the Bank of England’s 2% inflation target looked less like a ceiling than a distant aspiration. That world has gone.” (01/26/26)
https://fee.org/articles/does-britains-inflation-target-still-make-sense/
- On the Very Idea of a “Heritage American”
Source: Underthrow
by Max Borders“The NatCons are modern day Tories with a heavy dose of Southern Traditionalism. Most of what they call for belongs at the community level or private sphere, not the nation.” (01/26/26)
https://underthrow.substack.com/p/on-the-very-idea-of-a-heritage-american
- Capping Card Interest Rates Won’t Make Credit Cheaper
Source: The Daily Economy
by John Phelan“APR caps may sound consumer-friendly, but price caps just serve to cut off vulnerable households from legitimate lenders.” (01/26/26)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/capping-card-interest-rates-wont-make-credit-cheaper/
- Where the Sidewalk Ends, the Lies Begin: On the Execution of Alex Pretti
Source: CounterPunch
by Jeffrey St. Clair“The lies aren’t even creative. They’re pro forma. They tell them to cloak the impunity given to the murderous agents of the state, who’ve been unshackled from the Constitution and given license to raid and ransack, detain and kill at will. But how long will even the most slavish devotees of this regime be willing to swallow the lies without convulsing from deep-welling nausea? The right-to-lifers? The evangelicals? The NRA? How much will they tolerate? After all, federal agents disarmed Alex Pretti, then they shot him. You couldn’t script a more harrowing parable for the NRA’s warnings about the sanctity of gun rights for all these years. Will this heinous killing finally make them turn on Trump? Don’t count on it.” (01/26/26)
- Reining in the Courts
Source: Law & Liberty
by Jay Cost“What is the proper role of the judiciary in American political life? There has never been a clear answer to that question, even among the founders. The Constitution itself has relatively little to say about the judiciary, delegating most of its design and much of its authority to congressional action. Alexander Hamilton in Federalist #78 argued that the judiciary could resolve disputes arising under the Constitution. But James Madison in Federalist #51 suggested that many such questions should be settled by the political process. Thomas Jefferson, in retirement, was aghast at the sweeping rhetoric of McCulloch v. Maryland, in which his cousin, Chief Justice John Marshall, employed Hamiltonian reasoning to legitimize the Bank of the United States.” (01/26/26)
- Insect Loss As an Early Warning of Systemic Biological Failure
Source: Brownstone Institute
by Joseph Varon“n medicine, silence can be more alarming than noise. For example, a patient who abruptly stops voicing discomfort or a monitor that ceases activity may signal system failure rather than resolution. Ecology presents a similar scenario, and currently, the silence is deeply concerning. Insects are disappearing across vast regions globally. This is not a modest decline or a simple geographic shift, but a rapid vanishing of beetles, butterflies, moths, flies, mosquitoes, bees, and entire functional groups. This phenomenon is not speculative or anecdotal; it is among the most consistently documented biological trends of the past 50 years and remains insufficiently addressed.” (01/26/26)
https://brownstone.org/articles/insect-loss-as-an-early-warning-of-systemic-biological-failure/
- The US Must Return to a Gold Standard
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Patrick Barron“The purchasing power of the US dollar has been debased by over 99 percent since the foundation of the Federal Reserve. (An ounce of gold cost $20.67 in 1913. According to the Wall Street Journal as of Friday, January 16 its price was $4,588.40. That means that the dollar is worth less than one half of one percent of its 1913 purchasing power [$20.67/$4,588.40=.0045]). Its remaining purchasing power may eventually become zero. There is no discipline in US spending and the Fed has become a willing accomplice to this crime.” (01/26/26)
- Not This King?
Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob“Throughout President Donald Trump’s first term, I recall shouts that he had overstepped his authority under the law only to discover, oftentimes, that the power he was wielding had been bestowed upon our president by a feckless Congress. What I found even more disconcerting was that at no time did those complaining seek to limit these excessive presidential powers. It appears, as Sarah Isgur suggested, that their concern was not with an imperial presidency, only with this current person as that imperial president.” (01/26/26)
- “Chairman Trump” and a Dystopian Vision for Gaza Without Gazans
Source: Antiwar.com
by Alan Mosley“When Donald Trump strode into the World Economic Forum in Davos this January flanked by Jared Kushner and other confidants, it was ostensibly to sign a charter establishing a ‘Board of Peace.’ The document, hailed by its backers as a technocratic alternative to decades of dead‑end diplomacy, promises ‘pragmatic judgment’ and a ‘nimble and effective’ institution to rebuild war‑torn Gaza. The preamble reads like an attempt to imitate the United Nations Charter without its collective obligations. Beneath that veneer, the charter sets up a structure that concentrates virtually all authority in the hands of its chairman, Donald J. Trump, and relegates Palestinians to spectators while foreign investors draw up the blueprints for their homeland.” (01/26/26)
- What Kent State Taught the Country About State Violence
Source: Foreign Policy
by Julian E Zelizer“The horror of watching a U.S. citizen die at the hands of federal or state officials transcends ordinary politics. Such a ruthless deployment of power not only evokes deep and widespread human emotion but also collides directly with fundamental U.S. values rooted in the Constitution, especially the commitment to protecting individual liberties from government abuse.” (01/26/26)
- Quantum Vibe, 01/26/26
Source: Big Head Press
by Scott BieserCartoon. (01/26/26)
- Immigration: The Federal Solution
Source: David Friedman’s Substack
by David Friedman“The conflict over immigration has become something close to a civil war, with the federal government blocking state action against federal agents arguably guilty of murder. The immediate source of the conflict is a sharp difference in attitudes to illegal immigration between the inhabitants of Minneapolis, possibly of Minnesota, and the executive arm of the federal government. The less immediate source is a broader political split between left and right, blue tribe and red tribe. The accepted way to deal with that situation is through the electoral system. … A better solution is federalism. For the current conflict, that means deporting illegal immigrants from Florida, where the state government supports doing so, ignoring them in Minnesota and California, where the state government and, I suspect, a substantial majority of the population, do not.” (01/25/26)
https://daviddfriedman.substack.com/p/immigration-the-federal-solution
- Reason Roundtable, 01/26/26
- The Kyle Anzalon Show, 01/26/26
Source: Libertarian Institute
“ICE Using AI to ID Targets, Breaking Down Trump’s WEF Speech.” (01/26/26)
- Bulwark Takes, 01/26/26
Source: The Bulwark
“Sarah Longwell: The Alex Pretti Killing is Actually Breaking Through.” (01/26/26)
- Rising, 01/26/26
Source: The Hill
“Kash Patel, Kristi Noem, slammed by gun owners after Alex Pretti killing: Robby Soave.” (01/26/26)
https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/5705592-rising-january-26-2026/
- Parallax Views, 01/26/26
Source: Parallax Views
“Trump’s ICE Age: The Killings of Renée Good and Alex Pretti w/ Sheldon Richman.” (01/26/26)
- The Brian Nichols Show, 01/26/26
Source: Lions of Liberty
“Harris County Crime, Flooding, Taxes — Voters FED UP With Failed Leadership.” (01/26/26)
- Zooming In, 01/26/26
Source: The UnPopulist
“Does America Need a Deeper State to Save It? A Conversation with Tyler Cowen and Francis Fukuyama.” (01/26/26)
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/does-america-need-a-deeper-state
- EconTalk, 01/26/26
Source: EconTalk
“Zionism, the Melting Pot, and the Galveston Project (with Rachel Cockerell).” (01/26/26)
https://www.econtalk.org/zionism-the-melting-pot-and-the-galveston-project-with-rachel-cockerell/
- The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent, 01/26/26
Source: The New Republic
“Trump Accidentally Wrecks His Own Case for Tariffs in 3 Crazed Tirades.” (01/26/26)
https://newrepublic.com/article/205652/trump-accidentally-wrecks-case-tariffs-3-crazed-tirades
- Free Talk Live, 01/25/26
Source: Free Talk Live
“Energy crisis! Texas grid monopoly and the California rolling brown outs that have become normal :: Winter storm over half of country :: Renee Good vieo and other ICE murders :: Which ICE is more dangerous? :: Biden ALSO wanted federal police in cities …. David from NM calls about getting attacked and his phone being thrown :: Hawaii tries to subvert the 2nd ammendment :: Restaurants closed because of ICE. Democrats didn’t care about small businesses having to close when it was due to covid :: Too many cop brutality videos leads to depression. Having libertarian community is the antidote :: 2026-01-25 :: Bonnie, Colin, Angelo.” (01/25/26)